Exposition

Hidden Stone (2025)

Marte Johnslien
open exposition

About this exposition

The exhibition is deeply rooted in local history—the artist group explores the story of the white pigment titanium dioxide's industrial origin in Sandbekk, and how this world sensation from 1910 has influenced our world today. Titanium dioxide white pigment is a global color phenomenon. Ilmenite is transported from Titania to its sister company Kronos Titan in Fredrikstad, where it is refined into titanium dioxide. From there, the pigment circulates seemingly invisibly in a global network of systems. It is used in paint, plastics, paper, ink, cosmetics, medicine, sunscreen, and millions of products we use daily. This history is the starting point for the development project TiO2: The Materiality of White. Over the past two years, the artist group has visited Titania's mines and deposits, gathering materials from the local history. Just as geologists examined the areas in Sokndal over 150 years ago in search of valuable minerals, the group has wandered through the landscape, picking stones and collecting sand, clay, and rust-colored earth. These findings have been brought back to the ceramic laboratory at KhiO, where they have been processed through ceramic methods.
typeresearch exposition
date07/12/2025
published12/12/2025
last modified12/12/2025
statuspublished
copyrightMarte Johnslien
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4048825/4048826
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.4048825
published inResearch Catalogue


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name'Terreng i farger I', Linda Flø.
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